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Technical Q&As: Games
Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X native applications. The Cocoa frameworks support rapid development and high productivity, and include a full-featured set of classes designed to create robust and powerful Mac OS X applications. Cocoa provides developers starting new Mac OS X games the fastest way to full-featured, extensible, and maintainable implementations. Games from UNIX and other platforms can also be brought to Mac OS X quickly by using Cocoa to build state-of-the-art Aqua user interfaces while retaining most existing core code.
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OpenGL Sample Code (HTML)
QA1166: Describes new naming convention for OpenGL sample code
 2004-12-01
Using Interface Builder's NSOpenGLView or Custom View objects for an OpenGL application (HTML)
QA1167: Describes usage cases for both NSOpenGLViews and Custom Views for Cocoa OpenGL applications
 2004-10-28
How do I determine how much VRAM is available on my video card? (HTML)
QA1168: Using Core Graphics and IOKit to find the physical size of VRAM on installed hardware.
 2004-10-11
NSTimers and Rendering Loops (HTML)
QA1385: Using Cocoa timers (NSTimer) to drive a rendering loop
 2004-10-04
CGBitmapContextCreate Supported Color Spaces (HTML)
QA1037: Lists the color space and alpha info combinations currently supported by CGBitmapContextCreate.
 2004-09-09
How do I tell if a particular display is being hardware accelerated by Quartz Extreme? (HTML) ()
QA1218: Describes how to use CGDisplayUsesOpenGLAcceleration to see if a display is accelerated or not.
 2002-12-04
How can I programmatically determine the DPI of the current video mode? (HTML) ()
QA1217: Describes how to compute the DPI for a given display in a given mode using Core Graphics.
 2002-12-02
Changing the TCP Window Size (HTML)
NW47: Describes how to change the TCP window size in Open Transport.
 1997-03-14